Another lovely collection of yours!

I certainly agree with you:
“Although the later pieces are beautiful delicate items by most other pottery’s standards, you can tell the difference in the fineness and translucency of the porcelain in the older pieces compared to the later ones.”

When I lived in Canada I had a small antiques shop and was lucky enough to have a few pieces of Belleek pass through my hands, but I never started a personal collection.

I remember going into a shop in a large city in Canada that sold NEW porcelain and they had pieces of NEW Belleek. It is not nearly as carefully, delicately or intricately designed and decorated as the vintage pieces were.

I am a firm believer in buying VINTAGE over NEW, if at all possible, mainly for the fact that even everyday items were produced with quality that we never see today, except for very high priced items.

Thanks for all your great “SCRAPS OF MIND”!